I spend many hours pinning things I see on the internet, and enjoy being able to find those things quickly when I want to go back to them. Do I ever do anything real with them? Well, let's just say I finally have crossed the line from pinning to doing.
Happy dance.
This is what inspired me:
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Super easy. I used my home magazines, since I have so many of them waiting to be read. What can I say, I've been trapped in a novel series for the past month, so they've been piling up.
Then I made different-sized loops with said magazine strips, using the kids' glue sticks that I stocked up on when school was starting. Amazingly, there are some of those glue sticks left.
I also printed out a copy of the original picture, and used a colored pencil to mark the loops I had completed. Once all the loops were glued together, I was at a new dilemma: how to actually mount this thing to the wall. It's pretty flimsy, being made out of magazine paper and all. Doug suggested some veneer that he had left over from the bookcase he made.
That looked okay, but I wasn't sure how to adhere it to the board. So we went to Michael's and found a spray adhesive, along with a matte sealer. The sealer is to finish the thing off. So, for a total of $11, I figured we were pretty close to being done.
Then I remembered a picture I had in the basement. It used to be on the walls that I am painting (yes, still working on the second coat), and it isn't my favorite. So I turned the print upside down, and viola! A frame with a white background.
With a little spray adhesive and the sealer, this is what I finally had:
And now it's on the wall (one that has two coats of paint on it):
It looks almost silver, and the glimpses of color help break up the monotony of my current monochromatic scheme. A finished project!!!
Now, that doesn't happen every day.
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